he word engineering comes from Latin word
“ingenium” which means “innate quality, especially mental power, hence
a clever invention”. Much more than a word, engineers have adapted discoveries
and inventions that we use every day of our lives such as the television
or the computer I used to type this essay. One of the unique aspects of
engineering is that even though an engineer may specialize in one area,
they can correlate their knowledge into other fields. One example is the
link between medicine and engineering which has created the field of bionics,
which is dedicated to the study of biological concepts that can be applied
to the synthetic implants in hopes of replacing biology with technology.

The salaries of engineers depend on a wide range of factors. The starting salary of an engineer is always going to be
a small amount but they increase in time as one’s experience and education
increases. The biggest factor that affects salary is primarily what
type of engineer the person is. There are some fields in engineering in
which there are too many or too few qualified engineers and the concept of supply
and demand plays a factor. If one field of engineering has many workers,
the workers may be paid a lesser amount than another field in which there
are few engineers. The other factor is the company or firm that the engineer
is working for. There are thousands of engineering companies and all of
them set their own payroll for their engineers. The other factor is if
you are a government employee where all the workers are paid at a fixed
income. One other factor is where you are in the globe. Different countries
pay their engineers differently and there may have vast areas of open land ready to be worked on where in the US,
everyone is savagely searching for a piece of land because it is a vital
resource that can’t be renewed. There are many other different factors
that play a role as well including the career one chooses, such as if they
choose to practice or teach.